and how is strange fruit used in that film? well, this is a very good example of hollywood rewriting history and really the kind of crime it is to rewrite history and to play around with the facts. i mean, the film is the kind of thing that makes me very angry. i mean, the way that diana ross represented billie holiday is one question, and that's an artistic question. i don't fault her for that or the people who made the film. i think that, you know, diana ross was not billie holiday, but then again, i don't think even diana ross would make such a claim. but the misrepresentation of the facts of strange fruit, i think, are really unforgivable. what happened in the movie-- and i'm sure that there are people out there who remember the scene in the movie-- she's on a bus, touring in the south sometime in the 1930s with her band, and she gets off the bus to relieve herself. and she walks over a hill, and there's this procession, this sort of procession of bedraggled-looking, poor african americans. i think there's a horse and cart